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Vol. III. No. 3 



November, 1917 



University of Virginia Record 
Extension Series 




WAR EXTENSION SERVICE 



Published by the University 



[Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffice at Charlottesville, Va.] 



Monograph 



BULLETINS OF THE BUREAU OF EXTENSION OF THE 

UNIVERSITY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING 

PUBLICATIONS. 



1. Rural Life Bulletin — The Country Church 

2. Virginia High School Quarterly — Published in November, February, May and 

August 

3. Virginia High School Literary and Athletic League — Debate — Part L Organiza- 

tion, Parliamentary Forms and Rules. Part II. Arguments and References 

4. Virginia High School Literary and Athletic League — Debate — Woman's Suffrage 

5. Virginia High School Literary and Athletic League — Debate — Good Roads 

6. Extension Series, Vol. I, No. 2 — University Extension Lectures 

7. Extension Series, V'ol. I, No. 3 — Compulsory Education 

8. Extension Series, Vol. I, No. 4 — Religious Activities and Advantages at the Uni- 

versity of X'irginia 

9. Extension Series, \'ol. I, No. 5 — Program for the use of Sunday Schools and 

Churches in the observance of Country Church Day 

10. Extension Series, Vol. I, No. 6 — Announcement of the Curry Memorial School 

of Education 

11. Extension Scries, Vol. I, No. 7 — Program of the Ninth Annual Rural Life Con- 

ference, University of Virginia Summer School, July 17 to 21, 1916 

12. Extension Series, Vol. II, No. 1 — Official Syllabus of Bible Study for High 

Scliool Pupils 

13. Extension Series, Vol. II, No. 2 — The Virginia High School and Athletic League 

• — -Debate, Compulsory Military Training 

14. Extension Series, Vol. II, No. 3 — A Bibliography of Educational Surveys and 

Tests 

15. Extension Series, \'ol. II, No. 4 — Principles Involved in the Teaching of Hand- 

writing 

16. Extension Series, \''ol. II, No. 5 — Summer School of Music; Special Announcement. 

17. Extension Series, \'ol. II, No. 6-7 — The Jewish Chautauqua Society and the Uni- 

versity of X'irginia 

18. Extension Series. \'ol. II, No. 8-9 — The Relation of the Colleges and Univer- 

sities of the South to the National Crisis 

19. Extension Series, Vol. II, No. 10 — Albemarle Highway Association 

20. Extension Series, Vol. Ill, No. 1 — A Study of School Recesses 

21. Extension Series. \'ol. III. No. 2 — Virginia High School Literary and .\th- 

letic League — Debate, A League to Enforce Peace 

22. Extension Series, \'ol. Ill, No. 3 — War Extension Service 

Copies of these bulletins will be sent to any one upon application to 

BUREAU OF EXTENSION, 

Charles G. Maphis, Chairman 

University, Virginia 



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WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

The fundamental duties of every university are to teach, to 
invebtigate, to disseminate truth, and to afiford technical guid- 
ance to the people. My own ambition for th*e University of 
Virginia is to speed the time when no cry of help in any social 
need shall come up from any community in the Commonwealth 
that will not be met by immediate response from the forces 
and agencies assembled here at the University. If this was a 
normal peace-time aspiration it is even more a war-time am- 
bition. If it was our duty to discharge these obligations in 
peace through ordinary university channels, it is even more 
our duty now to bring to bear all of our resources upon the 
novel and complex problems that face our democracy. 

The University of Virginia as soon as war was declared, 
hastened to concentrate its energies in helpful work for the 
nation. It placed military training in its curriculum ; it classi- 
fied its resources of men and equipment ; it organized and of- 
fered war courses of instruction ; it organized a great Base 
Hospital Unit, now ready for embarkation ; its faculty, under- 
graduates and alumni gave themselves to the nation's need so 
generously that twenty per cent of them are now to be found 
with the colors. This sort of helpfulness will continue to go 
on as the need arises ; but the University realizes that there 
rests upon it, in addition to this, a clear educational duty, not 
only to teach those who come to its walls, but to instruct all 
citizens who need guidance as to the causes of war, the char- 
acter of American ideals, the avenues for public usefulness, 
the true ways to win peace, the nature of the responsibility 
that rests upon all Americans in this solemn moment of our 
national history, and the character of the reconstructive work 
that awaits us all when a just peace shall be won. The Uni- 
versity wishes to discharge those duties to the extent of its 
power, and, if possible, in cooperation with high schools, 

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grammar schools, and other educational bodies in practical 
and definite ways. It wishes to draw nearer to the people by 
offering them practical but inspiring instruction in a sound 
idealism, in all useful administrative work, in the mobilization 
of latent resources, and in all the fields that tend to give to a 
patriotic American knowledge of his privileges and duties in 
this testing time in the experience of the republic. A general 
plan of operatioji is herein submitted. 

Edwin A. Alderman, 

President. 



UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. 

"Our Republic can no longer rely on an unlimited quantity 
of untouched wealth, but must depend upon skill and training 
for the proper development of its resources. The times call 
imperatively, therefore, for educated leadership, whose great- 
est need will be knowledge and the discipline of exact train- 
ing. The ultimate mission of the State University in America 
will be to supply this training, not only to the fortunate few 
who can repair to its walls, but to all the people who constitute 
the life of the State. Universities must, therefore, in a pecu- 
liar sense draw nearer to the people, young and old, in helpful- 
ness and service. This is an old philosophy, indeed, but in- 
formed now by a new and vigorous spirit which will be satis- 
fied with nothing less than a complete and pervasive program. 
University extension is the name given to this great connecting 
link between every part of a university and the actual condi- 
tions of life in the State which the university exists to aid and 
strengthen. The fundamental ideal of university extension is 
the ideal of service to democracy as a whole rather than to 
individual advancement. The University of Virginia, founded 
by the greatest individualist and democrat of the age, would 
be strangely false to its origin and genius if it did not seek to 
illustrate this idea. It has, of course, for years sought to ren- 
der such service in indirect fashion and with limited means. It 
is now undertaking to inaugurate the great system in a more 
direct fashion, with the hope that the encouragement it re- 



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ceives will enable it to overcome all obstacles and to realize the 
g^reat democratic purpose of bringing the University to every 
fireside and home in the Commonwealth. This sort of mii- 
versitv extension necessitates large means, but when its ad- 
vantages to the elevation of standards and life in the Com- 
monwealth are seen, a sagacious and generous people will not 
fail, I believe, to provide for the maintenance of so vital an 
enterprise." 

Bdzviii A. Alderman. 

"No longer do colleges and universities confine their work 
within their own walls. More and more do they attempt to 
reach all the people of the communities to which they minister. 
The campus of the state university has come to be coextensive 
with the borders of the state whose people tax themselves for 
its support. The great universities with large endowments at- 
tempt to serve still larger areas in this popular way. Wher- 
ever men and women labor in the heat, or toil in the shadows, 
in field or forest, or mill or shop or mine, in legislative halls or 
executive offices, in society or in the home, at any task requir- 
ing an exact knowledge of facts, principles, or laws, there the 
modern university sees both its duty and its opportunity. The 
fear that such service may lead to a lowering of dignity and a 
dissipation of energy has given place to a realization of the 
facts that there is no dignity except the dignity of service and 
that the only way to conserve and increase strength is to spend 
it wisely." 

P. P. Claxton, U. S. Coiiuiiissioncr of Education. 

"A college, to be of any great value, must grow out of the 
community in which it lives, and must be in absolute touch 
with that community, doing all the good it can, and doing 
what the community needs. Any institution not in close touch 
with the community around it is bound to wither and die. The 
institutions about us today which are doing the most good in 
the way of helping their respective communities are the great 
state universities of the Middle West. We must learn to do 
those things which others are doing." 

President Lowell, of Harvard University. 



6 WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

"All persons in the Commonwealth are properly students 
of a state institution, but very few of them have yet registered, 
nor is it necessary that any great proportion of them should 
leave home in order to receive some benefits of the institution. 
It is the obligation of such an institution to serve all the peo- 
])le, and it is e(jually the obligation of the people to make the 
institution such that it can exercise its proper functions ; and 
all this can be brought about without sacrificing any worthy 
star.dards of education." 

Dcaii Bailey, CorncU College. 

"Life is made up of work' and leisure." says R. (i. ^loulton. 
"No one is now^ found to defend the idle life that has no work 
in it. But the correlative of this is equally true that a man 
who in preoccupation with his professional or ])hilanthropic or 
social duties has lost all control of his time and can not retire 
into himself and give heed to his self-develo])ment. has lapsed 
from the life of a free man into the life of a slave. The fourth 
commandment is still valid : and the significance of the fourth 
commandment is not the details of vSabbath observance, but 
the duty of leisure ; its ])lace in the decalogue means that the 
moral dutv of leisure is as fundamental as the duty of iHirity 
or honestv." To assist people in finding proper use for this 
necessary leisure is one ])urpose of uni\ersit}' extension. 



University extension is the organized and systematic efifort 
to bring some of the advantages for culture and instruction 
within the university to i)eoi)le who are not enrolled as resident 
students and thus make the campus of the university as wide as 
the state itself. It renders the resources of the university's 
faculty, libraries, laljoratories, and shops available to the largest 
])Ossil)le number of individuals and communities, by carrying 
them out into the state and applying them in creative helpful- 
ness. A university should not only discover truth, but dissem- 
inate truth, and university extension, therefore, is an attempt 
to bring the university to those who can not go to it. This 
should be especially true of a state university, supported as it 
is by the taxes of all the people ; it is under moral and business 



WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. / 

obligation to render service to each citizen and to the state. It 
fulfills this obligation in a measure by educating in residence 
young men and women and sending them back into their home 
communities with a broader outlook, a more intelligent com- 
prehension of the problems of life, expert knowledge or ac- 
quired skill through professional training, and especially the 
inspiration, ambition and ability for unselfish service as citizens 
of the commonwealth. But there exists in every community 
a considerable class of persons who have capacity, leisure, and 
ambition and who have claim upon the state for educational 
opportunities outside the formal instruction given within the 
walls of the institutions. Through dififerent forms of extension 
service the university can and should open the door of educa- 
tional hope to thousands of such citizens who can not attend 
school. Its constant aim should be to make the university the 
centre of every movement which concerns the interests of the 
state and to give every man a chance to get the highest educa- 
tion possible at the smallest practical cost — to bring the uni- 
versity and the home in closer touch, to carry the university to 
every city, town and country community and into every school 
and every home, reaching out a helpful hand to every citizen. 
University extension enables any one, young or old. in occu- 
pation, to broaden his knowledge, extend his vision, fit himself 
for new duties, keep up with improvements and discoveries, 
and to keep in touch with the best thought of the times. It has 
passed the experimental stage and is now a recognized depart- 
ment in practically every state university and in many colleges 
under private control. It is one phase of the general tendency 
to democratize education. 

Through extension work the resources of the university be- 
come more available to the citizens of the state. In a very true 
and broad sense it makes the institution fulfill its true function 
of a public service corporation responding to the call for aid, 
whether from the public elementary schools, the secondary 
schools, or the improvement of public health, or for civic bet- 
terment or the betterment of economic or industrial conditions. 

Between 1906 and 1913, inclusive, twenty-eight institutions 
organized university extension, and between those dates twenr 



8 WAR KXTENSION SERVICE. 

ty-one other institutions reorganized. The Extension Bureau 
of the University of Virginia at present comprises several ac- 
tivities, including the promotion of debate and discussion of 
public questions through its Bureau of Debate and Discussion, 
the dissemination of information regarding work and investiga- 
tions of the departments of the University through special bulle- 
tins, the standardizing aiid encouraging of pure amateur ath- 
letics through its High School Athletic League, the stimula- 
tion and encouragement of better methods of teaching in sec- 
ondary schools through the publication of the High School 
Ottartcrlv, the dissemination of useful knowledge through its 
extension lectures, and the advancement in any way in its 
power of social organization and civic development. 



THE BUREAU OF EXTENSION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 

VIRGINIA. 

The Bureau of l{xtension of the University of Virginia of- 
fers to the ])eople of the state: 

/. Instniction hv Lectures: 

Lectures I)v members of the faculty of a popular or tech- 
nical nature or addresses for commencement or other special 
occasions will be furnished to any community which will pay 
the traveling expenses and provide entertainment for the lec- 
turer. 

//. Assistance in Pebatc and Public Discussion : 

Through the X'irginia High v^cliool Literary and Athletic 
League, special bulletins and handbooks containing informa- 
tion ©n pertinent (|uestions for jiublic discussion, will be sent 
free of cost to any individual, scliool. society, club or other 
org;uiization applying for it. 

///. Packa(/e Libraries: 

The Library of the Laiiversity will lend a limited number 
of package libraries, containing information on public ques- 
tions for discussion, to schools and organizations applying and 
willing to pay transportation charges. 



WAR KXTKNSION' SERVICC;. 9 

/F. The Virginia High School Quarterly: 

For the use of teachers in high schools and school officers 
the High School Quarterly will be sent upon application, free 
of charge. 

V. Bureau of Pjiblication : 

For the purpose of disseminating information and carrying 
the results of study, research and investigation of its faculty 
to as many people as possible, the Bureau will publish ten spe- 
cial Bulletins on various subjects each year. These Bulletins 
will be sent free of cost to all persons aplying to be placed on 
the mailing list. 

VI. A Bureau of Appointments: 

For the purpose of aiding communities and schools in se- 
curing efficient teachers in the high schools a bureau of ap- 
pointments is maintained, which will send without charge in- 
formation about teachers and vacancies in secondary schools. 

It is the purpose of the University as soon as possible to add 
correspondence courses, and other forms of extension work. 

VH. War Bxtension Service : 

For several years past the University, through its Bureau of 
Extension, as far as possible without any special appropriation 
or other resources for this work, has endeavored to extend its 
services to all the people of the commonwealth who cannot re- 
pair to its walls for instruction but who constitute the life of the 
State, through extension lectures, assistance in debate and pub- 
lic discussion, package libraries, and numerous publications car- 
rying the result of study, research, and investigation of its fac- 
ulty. 

At this time and in this crisis the service of the University in 
these directions should be brought to bear upon the immediate 
problems arising out of the present war and the many new and 
difficult ones which will follow. To this end, it is the desire of 
the University to make available to the fullest extent practica- 
ble the service of the members of its faculty and every other re- 
source of the institution, including its alumni. 



10 WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

It, therefore, offers a war extension service consisting of: 

A. Extension Lectures which will be offered to country 
churches, community leagues, farmers' clubs, high schools, 
commercial clubs, and to the public generally. 

B. Special cantonment service consisting of extension lec- 
tures suitable for the men in our camps. 

C. Courses of study based on a brief outline and bibliogra- 
phy furnished by the professors, for local groups tmder the 
direction of one or more professors. 

D. Library war service consisting of information about books 
and articles dealing with the war. package libraries, and the 
regular use of the library through our card system at small 
cost. 

It is the desire of the LIniversity to secure the cooperation of 
its alumni in each county of the State in carrying out this pro- 
gram of service, and, therefore, an alumnus has been invited to 
act as Chairman in each county and city to do the following 
things: 1. To till as many engagements himself as possible in re- 
sponse to invitations in his county to discuss any phase of the war 
and the problems arising therefrom. 2. To take local charge of 
the courses of instruction and lectures offered by the University. 

3. To associate with him other alumni to assist in these matters. 

4. To address the students of the principal high schools of the 
county urging them to go to college next session. Due an- 
nouncement of these a]jpointments will be made in local |)apers. 



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EXTENSION LECTURES. 

The War Extension Lectures are listed first in each i^ronp in 
the following list. 

No charges for these lectures is made to communities desir- 
ing them except the necessary expenses for travelling and en- 
tertainment of the lecturers. No fee need be paid to the lec- 
turer and no entrance fee can be required of the audience. 
Schools or communities desiring the use of these extension 
lectures should, when applying, indicate a first, second and 
third choice of speakers, because it is not always possible for 
a professor to leave his work in the University and each one 
can accept only a limited number of engagements. 

The following lectures will be available this session : 

E. A. Alderman, President: Causes of the European War; 
The Safeguarding of Democracy for the World ; Education and 
War. 

J- C. Bardin, Adjunct Professor of Spanish and Portugese: 
What Germany Tried to Do to Latin-America ; Latin-America 
— Her People and Her Geography (Illustrated) ; (100 Lan- 
tern Slides Available). 

A. G. A. Balz, Associate Professor of Philosophy : German 
Philosophy and the War. 

Robert Bennett Bean, Professor of Anatomv : Types of 
Alan ; The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon ; The Moham- 
medans of the Philippines; Diseases in Relation to Type; Death 
Rate in Relation to Type. 

R. M. Bird. Professor of Chemistry: The Chemical Factor 
in Modern Warfare ; The Chemist During the Re-construc- 
tion Period; The Chemist Back of the Firing Line; The Ac- 
complishment of Applied Chemistry in America ; The Ro- 
mance of Steel; Camp Equipment and Camp Life (Illustrated). 

E. I. Carruthers. Bursar: Enlisting the Man. 

R. H. Dabney, Dean of the Department of Graduate Stud- 
ies : Why Germany is so Terribly Strong ; What we are 
Fighting For ; The World's Debt to France. 

John Staige Davis, Professor of the Practice of Medicine: 
The Efl:'ect of Alcohol on the Human Bodv and Mind. 



12 WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

W. H. Faulkner. Professor of Germanic Languages : The 
Meaning of a German Victory ; Pacifist, Socialist, or Pro- 
German ; Storm-Warnings in German Literature Since 1870; 
German Literature and War Prior to 1870. Available only on 
Saturday evenings and Sundays. 

Thomas FitzHugh, Professor of Latin : Speech Affinities 
of the Nations in the World War, with Special Reference to 
Latin ; Culture, History and Ancient Art. 

W. M. Forrest, Professor of Biblical History and Litera- 
ture : The Prophets and World Peace ; Jesus and the War ; 
The Peace Program of the Kingdom of God ; The Literary 
Value of the English Bible; The Making of the Bible; The 
Hebrew Prophets ; The Wise Men of Lsrael ; Jesus as a 
Teacher; St. Paul the Man; What High School Pupils Ought 
to Know About the Bible; Life in India; The Country Church 
and the Rural Problem ; Public School Credit for Bible Study. 

Raymond Freas, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry: The 
Chemistry of Gas Warfare; Manufacture of Modern Explo- 
sives ; The Chemist in Industrial Preparedness ; Explosives and 
Fertilizer from the Air; Coal Tar Products in the War. 

Charles Hancock. Professor of Mechanical Engineering: 
The Automobile in Army Transportation ; The Automobile in 
the Service of the Farmer ; The Care of One's own Automo- 
bile ; The Liberty Motor ; Smoke Abatement in its Relation to 
Fuel Economy ; Fuel Economy in the House. 

W. H. Heck, Professor of Education : The Health of 
School Children as the Basis of National Strength; Character 
Elements of Education. 

H. P. Johnson, Adjunct Professor of English Literature: 
Training for Service — Plattsburg and After; Fighting beyond 
the Sea — Why Leave our own Shores ? ; Some Benefits of the 
War — A New Meaning of Democracy; Modern Tendencies 
in Education ; Some English Poets of our Day. 

R. C. Jones, State Forester : Forestry in France ; The In- 
fluence of Forests on Stream Flow ; The Proper State For- 
est Policy for Virginia ; How Owners of Timberland Can Prac- 
tice Forestry in Virginia; The Immediate Necessity of a State 
Forest-Fire- Protection System in Virginia. 



WAR EXTlvNSION SRRVICK. 13 

H. E. Jordan, Professor of Histology and Embryology' : 
War Responsibility and Opportunities. 

W. A. Kepner, Professor of Biology : Darwin and tbe 
War; A Neglected Aspect of Human Conduct; War and Life's 
Reality; Animal Activities; The Place of Education in Life; 
The Individual and the Species. 

J. S. Lapham, Adjunct Professor of Experimental Engi- 
neering: The New Stone Age. 

Ivey Lewis, Professor of Biology and Agriculture : Pot- 
ash, Plant Production and the War ; The Biological Factor in 
History. 

Albert Lefevre, Professor of Philosophy: America and the 
World War; Philosophy and Life. 

J. L. Manahan, Professor of School Administration: Dan- 
gers to Public Education in War Times ; Why America is at 
War; Who Will Win the War? Why?; How to Know your 
Home County and Community ; The Public School as an Ed- 
ucational Laboratory ; Improving Instruction Through Educa- 
tional Measurement ; School and Community Cooperation ; 
Standard Tests and Educational Administration ; Parent- 
Teachers' Associations at Work. 

C. G. Maphis, Professor of Secondary Education : The 
American Red Cross ; The Effect of the War on our Educa- 
tional Aims and Ideals ; Has German Education Failed ? ; The 
High School as a Social Institution ; Thomas Jefferson as Re- 
vealed by his Letters ; L'niversity Extension ; A Plea for the 
Mother Tongue. 

J. C. Metcalf, Professor of English: The Ministry of De- 
mocracy ; Poetry and the War W^orld ; War and Literature. 

S. A. Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy : How to Navigate 
a ship ; A Trip to the Moon ; The Light and Pleat of the Sun ; 
35,000 Miles w-ith an Astronomer to See Eclipses of the Sun; 
Is Mars Inhabited? 

W. N. Neff, Secretray Y. M. C. A.: The Red Triangle; 
Christianity and War. 

J. L. Newcomb, Professor of Civil Engineering: The En- 
gineer in the War; The Engineer after the War. 



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Tlios. W. V<{^e. Professor of Economics : Economic As- 
pects of the War ; Paying the Cost of the War ; What Has 
W'ar done to Business?; Readjustments for Future Peace. 

]. S. Patton, Librarian of the University: The Library 
and the State; 'IMic ( )ld ( )rder and the New in Library Pur- 
])0ses ; Books and Bookhngs. 

W. S. Rodman, Associate Professor of Edectrical luigineer- 
ing : Electricity in tlie \^'ar. 

Lindsav Rogers, Adjunct I'rofessor of I'ohtical Science: 
(icrmany's Res])onsibilit\' for the War; How (rermany Makes 
War: The War Aims of the United States; What tlie War 
Should Mean to the American People ; The ( jovernment of 
()ermanv; 'JMie American (lOvernment and the War. 

C. Al. Sparrow, Adjunct Professor of Physics: The Sub- 
marine ; Guns and Gimnery. 

\\'. Al. Thornton, Professor of Applied Mathematics: The 
Farmer's Roads and How to Improve Them ; Macadam and 
His Followers; The Automobile and the Roads of the Future. 

R. H. Webb. Professor of Greek: The Life of the Ancient 
(/reeks; (ireek Athletics; Recent Discoveries of Greek Litera- 
ture. 



The following men from the student ])od}- are available for 
speeches in the State on the llonor System, Clean Sport, 
Avoidance of Disease, and patriotic subjects: D. C. Wilson, 
F. M. Massie. H. .\. Sparr, B. C. Smith, D. M. Faulkner, R. 
H. Meade, D. E. Brown. Carter Catlett, R. C. I'lannagan, 
T. B. O'Neill. W. N. Neit. 



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WAR EXTENSION STUDY COURSES. 

It is lio])ed that the following courses will he undertaken by 
various local organizations, such as community leagues, farm- 
ers' clubs, women's clubs, teachers' associations, high school 
clubs, book clubs, etc. The organization should elect a con- 
ductor for the course, and this conductor should write to the 
])rofessor in charge of the course desired for a further out- 
line, text-book, parallel reading, and other suggestions. If 
the professor can so arrange his work at the University as to 
be a.ble to leave, he will be glad to give a lecture to the class 
sometime during the course, preferably at the beginning. 

/. The Historical Backgroinid of the World IVar.—R. H. Dah- 
ney. 

1. The Congress of Vienna, Metternich. the Holy Alliance 
and the Reaction against the French Revolution in Europe. 

2. The July Revolution in France, Belgian Independence, and 
the abortive Polish revolt. 

3. Central Europe between 1830 and 1848. 

4. The stormy years. 1848 and 1849. 

5. The second French Empire. 

6. Cavour, Garibaldi, and the creation of the kingdom of It- 
aly. 

7. Prussia. Bismarck, and the creation of the German Em- 
pire. 

8. The Growth of British Democracy and the expansion of 
British colonies. 

9. The Third French Republic. 

10. Decline of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the Balkan 
States. 

11. Russia before and since her war with Japan. 

12. Alsace-Lorraine; the Poles of Russia. Prussia and Aus- 
tria ; Italia Irredenta ; the Slavs and other oppressed peoples of 
Austria-Hungary. 

13. German arrogance and the "Weltpolitik." 

14. Recent Diplomatic crises. 

15. The two Balkan wars. 

16. The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia. 



16 WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

//. U>iitcd States History since 1865.— R. H. Dahncy. 

1. Overtlirow and Reconstruction of the Southern Social and 
Political System. 

2. The West and the ( ireenbacks. 

3. Political Corruption and Civil Service Reform. 

4. The Tariff. 

5. The Farmers' Alliance and Populism. 

6. The Silver Question. 

7. The Spanish War. The United States a World Power. 

8. Big- Business. Corporations and "Trusts." Capital and 
Labor. 

///. liconoiiiic Aspects of the War. — T. ]J\ i^oge . 

1. l*ayin<;- the Costs of the War. 

2. The War and Business Dislocation and Readjustment. 

3. Effect ot the War on Prodtiction and Transportation. 

4. Tlic War and International Commercial Relations. 

5. Tlie Si.n^niticance of possible Territorial Adjustments. 

IV. The United States and the War. — Lindsay Rogers. 

1. .American Foreign Policy (The Monroe Doctrine, etc.) 

2. The Causes and Issues of the Etiropean W^ar: America's 
Interest. 

3. America's Case against (jermany. 

4. The War Aims of the United States. 

5. The United States and the Future Peace of the World. 

V. Democracy and JFar. — Lindsay Rogers. 

1. Democracy and Foreign Policy. 

2. The Citizen and the State; Cerman I'S. luiglish concep- 
tions. 

3. Democratic Dit^culties of Making War. 

4. (lOvernmental Changes on accotmt of the War. 

5. The War as a Struggle between Democracy and Autoc- 
racy. 

VL The Geography of the War. — W. H. Faulkner. 

1. The French and Belgian Front. 

2. The Russian and Rotimanian Front. 

3. The Italian Front. 



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4. The Balkan Front. 

5. The War in Asia JNlinur and in Africa. 

FII. Latin-Aiiicricaii Geography and Jts Relaiiun to the War, 
—J. C. Bard in. 

1. General Geography: (a) location of South America; (b) 
location of Mexico and Central America; (c) location of pro- 
ductive zones in Latin-America; (d) location of strategic 
points which dominate the regions; (e) the Antilles from a 
strategic point of view; (f) The Falkland Islands and the 
Strait of Magellan; (g) the Panama Canal and the Pacific. 

2. Special geogra])hy of the countries and their relations to 
the war. 

3. Special American International relations. The Pan-Ger- 
man plot and Latin- America. 

FIJI. The Prophets and World Peace.— W. M. Forrest. 

1. Israel's Relation to World Power. 

2. Expedients for Self-Preservation. 

3. War P'rophecies. 

4. Ideals of Liniversal Peace. 

IX. Jesus and War.—W. M. Forrest. 

1. Did Christ Forhid War? 

2. Application of Christ's Principles to War Problems. 

3. The Peace Program of the Kingdom of God. 

X. Poems of Patriotism. — J. C. Metcalf. 

1. American. 

2. English. 

3. French and Belgian (in translations). 

XI. A course of reading in patriotic Literature. — H. P. lohn- 
son. 

1. America and England — in 1776 and in 1917. 

2. America and France — in 1776 and in 1917. 

3. Our policy of isolation. 

4. The Monroe Doctrine. 

5. An extension of the Monroe Doctrine — the President's 
messages. 

6. America as seen by foreigners — speeches by statesmen of 
Great Britain. France, Italy, and other nations. 



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A7/. Health Conditions in the United States.— JV. H. Heck. 

1. The Registration x*\rea. 

2. Mortality Statistics. 

3. Morbidity Statistics. 

4. National Health Bureaus. 

5. State Health Departments. 

6. Oth"fer Health Agencies. 

A7//. llie Seeo)idary School. — C. C. Maphis. 

1. The Nature and Scope of Secondary Education. 

2. The ( )rganization of the Higii School. 

3. Methods of Instruction in the High vSchool. 

4. Prol)lenis of Secondary l^ducation. 

XIV. Elementary School Curricula. — ./. L. Manahan. 

1. Standards for judging the value of elementary curricula 
and syllabi. 

2. Application of these standards to: (a) reading and liter- 
ature; (b) composition and grammar; (c) spelling, and (d) 
music. 

3. Application of these standards: (a) nature study and 
elementary science; (b) arithmetic; (c) drawing; and (d) ge- 
ography. 

4. Conclusions as to f|uality of curricula of elementary school. 

A'['. Iniproi'iiuj I nstrnction through Educational Aleasureinent. 
— J. L. Manahan. 

1. Making the school an educational lal)oratory. 

2. Problems for study in educational measurement. 

3. Methods and means of measuring instruction. 

4. Inter])reting and utilizing the results of educational meas- 
lu'cment. 

A/ 7. The Health of School Children.— JV. EI. Heck. 

1. (kowth. 

2. Posture. 

3. Teeth. 

4. Ear, nose, and throat. 

5. Eyes. 

6. Work and rest. 



WAR KXTF.NSION SKRVTCK. 19 

7. The school environment. 

8. Communicable diseases. 

XVII. Introduction to General Psychology. — A. Ci. A. Bale. 

1. Subject-matter and methods of Psycholog}'. 

2. vStudy of the nervous system as an aid in the solution of 
the problems of Psychology. 

i. Sensation and the sense-organs; stimulation and reaction. 

4. Nature and importance of habit- formation. 

5. Perception, memory, and imagination. 

6. Meaning and intelligent behavior. 

7. Instinct and emotion. 

8. Character and will. 

XVIII. Introduction to Social Psychology. — A. C. A. /ia/.c'. 

1. Nature of Social Psychology and its relations to other 
forms of Psychology. 

2. Heredity and environment ; instinct and habit. 

3. The fundamental instincts of man : suggestion and imita- 
tion. 

4. The socialization of inherited tendencies. 

5. Development and social function of the sentiments. 

6. Habit and intelligence in society. 

7. The nature and conditions of ]irogress. 

A7A'. The Chemical Factor in Modern IVarfare. — R. M Bird. 

1. General scientific aspect of the war. 

2. The chemist back of the firing line. 

3. Modern explosives : their development and raw materials. 

4. Gaseous materials in warfare. 

A^A'. Biology and the JVar. — JV. A. Kcpner. 

1. Biology and food. 

2. Biology and health. 

3. Science and life and war. 

4. Life's higher values and war. 

5. The degree of human personality. 

6. Evolution and the war. 

A'A7. Bacteria on the Farm. — /. F. LeiAs. 

1. The general properties of micro-organisms. 

2. Relation of bacteria to soil fertility. 



20 WAR KXTENSION SERVICE. 

3. Bacteria and dairy products. 

4. Bacteria and miscellaneous farm products. 

5. Bacteria in water. 

6. Farm sanitation. 

XXII. How to Practice Forestry on Farm Woodlands. — R. C. 
Jones. 

1. The value of woodlands on the farm. 

2. Protection of farm woodlands against fire, insects, fungous 
diseases and grazing. 

3. Important native trees. 

4. Essentials of good farm woodlands. 

5. Improvement of farm woodlands by cuttings. 

6. Harvesting of mature trees on farm woodlands. 

7. Starting new trees in farm woodlands. 

XXIJI. Physics and the War. — C". M. Sparrow. 

1. Mechanics of j^rojectiles. 

2. The gyroscope. 

3. The aeroplane and submarine. , 

4. Acoustical apparatus. 

5. Use of lights for signaling. 

6. Photography. 

7. Application of electricity. 

XXIJ\ Operation and Care of Automobiles. — Charles Hancock. 

1. Construction of the Engine and Transmission. 

2. Fuel and Combustion ; the carburetor. 

3. Ignition, starting, and lighting systems. General care and 
upkeep. 

4. The runnin": sfear and steering mechanism. 



.-> t> 



XXC Lesso)is in Loyalty from Auc/iistan Authors: Readings 
in Sallust, Vergil, Livy, Horace. — Thomas FitcHugh. 

1. Sallust: Cateline Conspiracy, especially the Speeches of 
Caesar and Cato. 

2. Vergil: Acncid IV, VI, IX. 

3. Livy: I, XXI. 

4. Horace: Odes I. 2, 12, 14, 22, 35. II. 10, 15. HI. 2. 3, 4, 
5, 6, 24. IV. 5, 14, 15. Carmen Saeculare. 



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XXVI. Gcruian Classics. — IV. H. Faulkner. 

1. Luther. 

2. Lessing. 

3. Goethe. 

4. Schiller. 

5. Heine. 

XXVII. Navigatiun.—S. A. Mitclicll 

Intended specially for those who wish to give their services 
to help win the war by going to sea in the U. S. Merchant Ma- 
rine or in the U. S. Navy. 

The course will follow the general lines of a course given by 
Dr. Mitchell last summer in Philadelphia for the U. S. Shipping 
Board. 

XXVIII. Professor R. C. Minor will soon prepare an Extension 
Bulletin on Germany's Violation of International Lazv. 

This Bulletin will be sent on request to the Director of Ex- 
tension. 



UNIVERSITY TERM EXTENSION COURSES. 

The following courses, of 30 lectures each, will be given to lo- 
cal organizations by the professors named, in so far as the profes- 
sors have time to meet an extension class once every other week. 
Each course is equal in requirements to one term of a Univer- 
sity course and to a full Summer School course. On the basis 
of regular attendance and satisfactory work and examination, 
the members of a class will receive credit toward a professional 
certificate. 

/. The Health of the School Children and Teachers. — W. H. 
Heck. 

Corresponds to the first term of Education B2 in the regular 
session. 

This course deals with practical applications to local condi- 
tions of the hvgiene of posture, nutrition, ventilation, nose and 
throat, ears, eves, nervous system, and sleep, and the prevention 



22 WAR UXTKNSION SERVICE. 

of contagious diseases. The last week is devoted to the hy-- 
gienic organization of the teacher's Hfe and work. 

Text-l)ooks. — Terman's (a) Hygiene of the School Child, 
and (b) Teacher's Health, and the Bulletins of the Virginia 
Board of Health. 

//. The Hygiene of Sehool Biiildiinjs. Btjiiipiiieut. and Man- 
agement. — IV. H. H(ck. 

Corresponds to the second term of Kducation B2 in the reg- 
ular session. 

This course deals with practical applications to local condi- 
tions of the hygiene of location, lighting, ventilation, seating, 
teaching efiuipment. sanitation, and cleaning of school buildings. 
The latter part of the course is devoted to the length of the 
school session, the daily schedule, recesses, play and games, dis- 
cipline, punishment, methods of instruction, and home study. 
Dresslar's v^chool llvgiene, and ])ara11el reading. 

///. Rural Scliool Problems {icifli special relation to one and 
tico teacher schools). — J . L. Manahan. 
This course will consider problems of rural .school manage- 
meiit. courses of study, instructional needs, methods of teach- 
ing, affiliated activities and outside interests, recreation and 
playgrounds. })roblems of organization and administration. 

IJ^. Introductory Course in Social Psychology. — A. C. A. Bah. 
This course will offer a survey of the psychology of group 
living. Instinct and emotion, suggestion and imitation, the 
sentiments, the development of the self, custom and tradition, 
and the psychology of the crowd will be the primary topics 
considered. 



WAk KXTRNSION SKRX'FCIC. 23 

LIBRARY WAR SERVICE. 

For the use of Communities the University Library will sup- 
ply package libraries on the subject of the world war- 
la) At the request of any competently organized library; or 
(b) At the request of any effectively organized centre of war 
study, in any community which has no library of the character 
mentioned in (a). 

For the use of individuals the University Library will lend 
books to the holder of a reader's card, which may be had by de- 
positing $5 (which, less the amount, if any. deducted for injur/ 
to books, will be returned on request), and the payment of ?1 
for the privilege for a year or less. 



A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY'S WAR SER 
VICE TO JANUARY 1, 1918. 

The University Y. M. C. A. will contribute to the program of 
the University for general education in the state along patriotic 
lines in the following ways : 

1. (a) By having classes in its night schools for the older peo- 
ple for instruction in war aims and the methods of aiding 
in carrying on the war. these classes to be conducted by 
students who shall have received previous instruction from 
University professors. Three night schools in the county 
are now being conducted by the Y. M. C. A. 

(b) By having classes for the instruction of the younger peo- 
ple who attend in the responsibilities and meaning of citizen- 
ship. 

2. By sending speakers to all the centers in which it works 
who will address the people of those communities on patri- 
otic subjects, thrift stamps, food conservation. Red Cross 
and Red Triangle work, etc. 

3. By working through five medical clinics in Albemarle 
and Greene counties and in other clinics to be started to help 
relieve the pressing and increasing medical needs, and both 
in the regular clinical work and by occasional addresses ro 
general audiences help educate the jjeople to avoid disease. 



24 WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

4. In connection witli the work which is to be done in the sec- 
ondary schools tliroughout the state for the Honor System, 
to have the students visiting these schools also speak on such 
subjects as would serve the purposes of this patriotic pro- 
gram. 

5. In the work of the deputations, which will go to a few 
towns in the winter term, to include in the program some 
speeches by members of the deputations on the subjects in- 
dicated above. As these deputations remain in the towns 
four days and reach all classes of the peo})le the opportu- 
nity for such work will be especially good. 

6. By furnishing a few selected student speakers, who may be 
available for speeches, to suitable centers in the state ; espe- 
cially in regard to the medical situation we can furnish able 
men for this purpose. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA RESERVE OFFICERS' 
TRAINING CORPS. 

1916-1917. 

Registration for this Corps was begun on April 4, 1917. The 
resi:)onse of the students was extremely gratifying, the enroll- 
ment reaching a total of 784. 

Drilling began on Monday, April 9, when all of the units, 
consisting of students, alumni, and faculty, in response to Col- 
one^- Cole's command, assembled on the Lawn. 

1917-1918. 

Registration for this Corps was begun on September 13, 
1917. the enrollment reaching a total of 495. 

The Summer School authorities, furthermore, have made 
arrangements for Red Cross Courses and courses in Medical 
Inspection and First Aid ; courses in International Law, South 
American Relations, special courses in French and Spanish, and 
Business courses. 



WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 2o 

SPECIAL "WAR COURSES." 

The Comniittee appointed for the organization of new Col- 
lege courses, which would prove attractive to students contem- 
plating Federal service, arranged the following new courses to 
be offered beginning with the session 1917-1918: 

I. Meteorology. (Fall Term.) — Adjunct Professor Giles. 
II. Physical Geography. (Winter and Spring Terms.) — 
Adjunct Professor Giles. 

III. Elements of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Mo- 

tors. — Professor Rodman. 

IV. Telephony, Telegraphy and Signaling, Including Search- 

lights. — Professor Rodman. 
V. Navigation. — Professor Mitchell. 
VI. Field Astronomy. — Professor Mitchell. 
VII. Automobiles: Their Construction and Care. (Fail 
Term.) — Professor Hancock. 
VIIT. Timber: Characteristics and Uses. (Spring Term.) — 
Professor Jones. 
IX. Practical German. — Professor Faulkner. 
X. Practical Spanish. — Professor Bardin. 
XL Political Geography. — Professor Wilson. 
XII. Photography. — Professor Ploxton. 
XIII. Personal Hygiene for the Soldier. — The Medical Faculty. 
In addition the following Existing courses prepare for Fed- 
eral Service. 

1. International Law and Diplomacy. — Adjunct Professor 
Rogers and Mr. Dingledine. 

2. Engineering Geology. — (Fall, Winter and Spring 
Terms.) — Professor Watson. 

3. Plane Surveying. — Professor Newcomb. 

4. Topographical Drawing. — Professor ^Newcomb. 

5. Military Tactics. — Colonel Cole. 

Alumni. 

The following table shows the result of an inquiry to the 
alumni in regard to war material they are willing to turn over 
to the L^nited States. 



26 WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

Bijiiifiiiciit Offered. 

Automobiles 5-^4 

Factories 49 

Horses l^'^:] 

Motor-boats 23 

Motor-cycles 3 

Motor-trucks 49 

Wireless I 

National Service. 

1. Tliere have been organized at the University of Virginia 
two Ambuhuice Units for the Reserve Medical Corps of U. S. 
Army. The officially accepted enlistments in these units are 
as follows : 

Students 49 

Alumni 11 

Others G 

Still to 1)6 examined 6 

Probal)le total 73 

The University has organized a complete Hospital Unit 
(Base Hospital 41), which was accepted by the Government. 
The sum of $60,000 was donated by the Grand Lodge of the 
B. P. O. K. to pay for the equipment. The Hospital consists 

of 

Doctors ~4 

Ref.>:istered Xurses 100 

Enlisted Personnel !•">:! 

The Unit expects to sail for France early in the year. 

2. For the State of Virginia, the Virginia Geological Sur- 
vey through the State Geologist, who is also the Corcoran Pro- 
fessor of Geology, at the University of Virginia, is cooperat- 
ing with the National Research Council on materials for rapid 
highway and railro'ad construction behind the front, and in 
water supply, drainage, and camp sites. This information is 
for the use of the War department. 

The Virginia Geological Survey is also cooperating with th^e 
Federal Survey in search for available sources of such minor 
metals and other mineral resources as the United States now 



WAR KXTRNSION SERVICK. 27 

finds it necessary to import. Virginia has long been an impor- 
tant producer of a number of these minerals, and in several 
it ranks first among the producing states. 

3. As a further illustration of scientific helpfulness thirty- 
two students of the advanced courses in Chemistry were ac- 
cepted for the Industrial Reserve in Chemistrv. 

4. President Alderman, who is a member of the Advisory 
Committee of the Educational Section of the National Defense 
Board, and the several members of the General Faculty are de- 
sirous of employing their resources in cooperating with the So- 
ciety for National Research. 

vSt ATI STIC Aiv Tables. 

1916-1917. 

Number of students enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training 

Corps at the University of Virginia 784 

Faculty Platoon 24 

Number of students recommended for admission to Reserve Offi- 
cers' Training Camps 182 

Number students accepted at Fort ' Myer 33 

Members of Faculty accepted at Fort Myer 1 

Number students accepted at Fort Oglethorpe 10 

Number students accepted at Fort McPherson 1 

Number students accepted at Fort Sheridan 1 

Total 46 

1917-1918. 

Number of students enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training 

Corps at the University of Virginia 495 

Number of students recommended for admission to 3rd Reserve 

Officers' Training Camps 20 

The figures understate the number of University of Virginia stu- 
dents at the various Training Camps, as complete lists are 
unavailable at this time. 

1916-1917. 

Number of students accepted for Industrial Reserve in Chemistry 32 
Number Faculty accepted for Industrial Reserve in Chemistry. . 2 

Students who left the University in 1916-17 to engage in 
various forms of National Service are as follows : 



28 WAR EXTENSION SERViClv. 

Reserve ^Iedical Corps U. S. Army. 

Ambulance Units 49 L'. S. Marine Corps 3- 

Agriculture 40 Xaval Construction 3 

National Guards 9 Training Camps Y. M. C. A.. 2 

Naval Reserves 8 Geological Work for U. S. 

Coast Patrol 8 Government 2^ 

]^'Iunitions 8 Quartermaster's Reserve 1 

Ambulance Corps in France.. 8 Coast Artillery 1 

Aviation Corps 6 Position with Virginia Com- 

U. S. Navy 6 mittee on National Defense. 1 

U. S. Army 3 Radio Engineer 1 

Analysis of the Records of University of Virginia 
Aeumni in War Service.* 

Colonels in ^Medical Corps. Privates. 

LJ. S. A Marines S 

Total .• 13 Xavy 38 

(This is the highest rank .\rmy ^1* 

in the Corps. Univ. of " 

Penn., next in numbers, Total lf»S 

has onlv 6.) 

Amlmlance Corps (.Army)... 

Majors. Total 72 



Medical Corps 8 

Marines 2 

Army 14 



Lieut. -Colonels in Medical 

Corps. U. S. A 

Total 



Total 24 Captains. 

.Medical Corps 6 

]\Iarines 4 

.\ 1 m V 76 



1st Lieutenants. 

Medical Corps 18 

Marines 5 

Navy 6 

Army 21.5 

In Foreign Armies 6 

Total 253 



Total 8^ 

2n(l Lieutenants. 

Marines 2 

.\i my "'l 

In I-'orci'ju .\rmies 1 



Sergeants in .\rniy 

Total 24 Total o4 



*These figures are very incomplete: they show what can be gotten 
from the existing records, which are only about one-half analysed. 



WAR EXTENSION SERN'ICE. 



29 



Corporals in Army 

Total 13 

Ensigns in Xav^' 

Total 5 



Paymasters in Xavy 
Total 



Assistant Paymasters in Navj' 

Total 3 

Hospitals: Army, Navy and 

Base Hospitals 

Total 32 

Aviators 

Total 47 

Unclassified members of Med- 
ical Services, most of 
whom are known to be 
officers. 

T^Iarines 5 

Navy 41 

Civil 8 



Army and U. S. P. H. S 138 

Total 192 

Unclassified Alumni, known 
to be in service, but whose 
rank, branch, etc., is un- 
known 

Total 295 

Civilians doing work con- 
nected with the war (Ex- 
emption Boards, Councils 
of Defense, Red Cross, etc.) 
Total 44 

Men in Foreign Armies, not 
known to be officers. 

British Army 6 

French Army 7 

Total 13 



Chaplains 
Total 



Total number of Alumni in service so far accounted for 1340 

A large number of students have withdrawn from the Uni- 
versity this session to go into various branches of the service. 
Their records have not yet been reached in our classification. 
The number of alumni in service is estimated to be between 
2,000 and 2,500. 

Faculty Publications on the War. 
Attention may also be called to important publications by 
Virginia professors dealing with the war. President Alderman's 
much discussed addresses on "The Causes of the European 
War" and "Can a Democracy Be Organized" have been reprinted 
and have attracted wide attention. "America's Case against 
Germany," by Dr. Lindsay Rogers, Adjunct Professor of Polit- 
ical Science (N. Y., E. P. Dutton & Co.) was recommended by 
the National Security League for reading by every citizen who 
was anxious to be informed on the reasons for American par- 
ticipation. Dr. R. H. Dabney, dean of the Graduate School, 
and Professor Rogers have made a number of important contri- 
butions to the N. Y. Times. 



30 WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

SOME BOOKS ON THE WAR AND THE PEACE. 

The following bibliography of books on various phases of 
the world war and America's concern in it is not intended to 
be exhaustive but simply to indicate the material easily acces- 
sible and in most cases inexpensive, an examination of which 
will enable the reader to form an independent judgment on the 
issues involved. Titles are given only of books which can be 
secured in the United States and references are omitted to the 
vast amount of material which has appeared in England and 
France and which is, unfortunately, not quickly and inexpen- 
sively obtainable in the United States. 

More complete lists than those given below have appeared 
in many forms. The New York Times Book Rcviciv, at in- 
tervals of a few months, publishes complete bibliographies of 
war literature. .Ml American publications can be traced 
through the Ciotntlatnr Book Index and Readers Guide to 
Periodical Literature issued serially by the H. W. Wilson 
Company, New York City. The same finn sells a pamphlet, 
"Best Books on the War: An Annotated List," for 25 cents, 
and the Library of Congress has issued "Europe and Literna- 
tional Politics" (Washington: Superintendent of Public Doc- 
uments, 15 cents) which contains references to all the books 
and articles dealing with the historical background. In Eng- 
land, the Council for the Study of International Relations, the 
Central Committee for National Patriotic Organizations, and 
private firms have issued lists which approach exhaustiveness. 

Much material on the war can be secured at slight cost and 
in many cases with no charge at all. The George H. Doran 
Company has brought out many pamphlets, by English au- 
thors, setting forth England's case, which have been widely 
circulated in the United States and can be secured at a few 
cents each. The American Association for International Con- 
ciliation, in its monthly pamphlets, has published most of the 
diplomatic correspondence concerning the outbreak of the 
war, many of the more important parliamentary speeches, and 
the first exchanges in the correspondence between the United 
States and Germany and the I'nited States and England over 
infringements of neutral rights. These can be secured with- 



WAR EXTENSION SKRViCE. 31 

out charge although at present postal regulations require the 
payment of a nominal fee (25 cents) for a year's subscription 
to the pamphlet, Iniernational Conciliation, which appears 
monthly (Sub-station 84, New York City). 

The same may be said of A League of Nations, the little 
magazine now issued by the World Peace Foundation (40 Mt. 
Vernon St., Boston Mass.) Earlier pamphlets issued by the 
Foundation contained much of the diplomatic correspondence 
and several extremely valuable articles and documents on the 
programme of the League to Enforce Peace. The October, 
1917 issue of A League of Nations, published statements of 
"What We Are Fighting For" by President Wilson. ex-Presi- 
dent Taft, and President Lowell of Harvard, a history of the 
efforts made by the United States to substitute arbitration for 
war, and an excellent list of books on the war and the peace, 
none however, relating to the entrance of the United States.* 

Special attention should be directed to Current History, is- 
sued monthly by the Nezc York Times since the beginning of 
the war, and a veritable mine of information concerning mil- 
itary operations, responsibility for the war, diplomatic docu- 
ments, speeches, and articles by authorities which have ap- 
peared in the more important reviews in this country and Eu- 
rope. Current History is in a great many respects the most 
valuable publication dealing with the war that has yet appeared. 

By executive order of the President (April 14, 1917) the 
Committee on Public Information was organized and has per- 
formed a very useful service in issuing pamphlets dealing with 
various phases of the entrance of the United States into the 
war. The Committee distributes free, except as noted, the 
following publications : 

^ 

I. Red, White, and Blue Series: 

No. 1. How the War Came to America (English, German. Pol- 
ish, Bohemian, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish). 

Xo. 2. National Service Handbook (primarily for li!)raries, 
schools, Y. M. C. A.'s, clubs, fraternal organizations, 
etc., as a guide and reference work on all forms of war 
activity, civil, charitable, and military). 



*This list, which appeared originally in the Journal of Race Jlcvclop- 
ment (July, 1917), has frequently been quoted in the following sug- 
gestions. 



32 WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. 

No. 3. The Battle Line of Democracy. Prose and Poetry of the 
Great War. Sold at cost. Price. 15 cents. 

Xo. 4. The President's Flag Day Speech with Evidence of Ger- 
many's Plans. 
Other issues in ])reparation. 

II. War Information Series: 

No. 1. The War Message and Facts Behind It. 

No. 2. The Nation in Arms, by Secretaries Lane and Baker. 

No. 3. The Government of Germany, by Prof. Charles D. Hazen. 

No. 4. The Great War: from Spectator to Participant, by Prof. 
A. C. McLaughlin. 

No. 5. A War of Self Defense, by Secretary Lansing and As- 
sistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post. 

No. f). American Loyalty by Citizens of German Descent. 

No. 7. Amcrikanischc Biirgertrcuc. .\ translation of No. 6. 

No. 8. American interest in Popular Government Abroad, by 
Prof. E. B. Greene. 

No. 9. Home Reading Course for Citizen-Soldiers. 

No. 10. First Session of the War Congress, by Charles Merz. 
Other issues will appear shortly. 

III. Official Bulletin: 

Accurate daily statement of what all agencies of government are 
doing in war times. Sent free to newspapers and postmasters 
(to be put on bulletin boards). Suliscription price $•'> per 
year. 

Requests and orders should be addressed to The Committee on 
Public Information, Washington, D. C. 

The Historical Background. 

Cramb. J. A. Germany and England. (N. Y., Dutton. 1914. $1.00.) 
Constituted a trumpet call to the people of Great Britain to arm 
for the inevitable conflict. 

Fullerton, W. M. Problems of Power. (N. Y., Scribner, I'.ti:;. $:-\00.) 

Gibbons, Herbert Adams. The Nezv Map of Europe ( iQi 1-1914) : The 
Story of the Recent Diplomatic Crises and Wars and of Europe's 
Present Catastrophe. (N. Y., Century Co.. 1914. $2.00.) 
An excellent history of the recent international complications 
which finally brought about the present war. Valuable informa- 
tion regarding the racial, economic, and social factors which must 
be taken into consideration in making the new map of Europe. 

Hazen, Charles D. Europe Since 1815. (N. Y., Holt, 1913.) 
An excellent text-book with bibliographical notes. 

Oxford Faculty of History. JVhy We Are at War: Britain's Case. 
(N. Y., Oxford University Press, 1914.) 

A good, short account of the obligation on England by reason 
of the treaty of guaranteeing Belgium's neutrality. 



WAR EXTENSION SERVICE. ^^ 

Rose, John Holland. The Orifiiiis of the ll'ar. ( N. Y.. Putnam, 
1915. $1.00.) 

A short account by the well-known authority on Napoleon and 
modern European history. 

Seton-Watson. R. W., and others, llic War and Dciitocyacy. (N. Y., 
Macniillan. 1915. $.80.) 

An almost indispensable "guide to the study of the underlying 
causes and issues of the war." 

Schniitt, V>. E" England and Germany, 1740-11)14. (Princeton, Prince- 
ton University Press, 191(5. ) 

An explanation of the cause of the present war ably presented by 
a Rhodes scholar, well qualified by extensive study and travel. 

Seymour, Charles. The Diplomatic Background of the War. (New 
Haven, Yale University Press, 1916.) 

The war of 1914 was caused by the attempt of William II I0 re- 
assert his prestige in European world affairs. 

(All the lincyclopccdia Britannica articles on the history of the 
belligerent states are very valuable.) 

The Outbreak o^ the War. 

Alderman, Edwin A. The Causes of the European War. (Charlottes- 
ville, University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin, 1916). 
A reprint of a widely discussed address by the President of the 
University of Virginia. 

Beck, James M. The Ezidencc in the Case. (N. Y., Putnam, 1914. 
$1.00.) 
Searching analysis of the responsibility for the European War. 

Bullard, Arthur. The Diplomacy of the Great War. (N. Y., The 
Macmillan Company, 1916. $1.50.) 

Stowell, Ellery C. The Diplomacy of the War of 191 4- (Boston, 
Houghton, 1915. $5.00.) 

An invaluable examination of the published correspondence of 
each belligerent and a consideration, by an authority, of the legal 
duty on England and Germany with regard to Belgium. 

COELECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS. 

American Association for International Conciliation. International 
Conciliation. Nos. 83-90, 94-96, 101-104, 110, 111, 114; N. Y., the 
Association, 1914-1917.) 
Very convenient and valuable. 

Collected Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the Euro- 
pean War. (N. Y., Doran, 1915. $1.00.) 
Official publications of the belligerent countries. 



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Fess, Simeon L)., (compiler). The Problems of Neutrality When the 
World Is at Jl'ar. (House Documents, 64tli Congress, 2d Ses- 
sion. Xo. 2111: Washington. Government Printing Office.) 
Can be secured b}' purchase through the Superintendent of Doc- 
uments, Washington, or free tlirough a congressman or senator. 

German Methods of Warfare. 

Bhind, J. O. P. (editor). Grrmany's J'iolatioits of the Laws of War, 
1914-13, compiled under the auspices of the French Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs and n.'ith facsimiles of documents. (N. Y., Put- 
nam, 1915). 

Shows, in many cases by quotations from the diaries of German 
soldiers, the persistent and systematic violation of the Geneva 
and Hague Conventions. 

Brycc, James, viscount. Report of the Committee on Altci^ed German 
Outrages. (N. Y., Macmillan, 1915.) 

A presentation of some of the ev'dencc and a summary of the 
findings. 

Morgan, Jolm II. (editor). The War Book of the German General 
Staff. N. Y., McBride, Nast, 1915. $1.00.) 

This text shows the German policy of frightfulness to be offi- 
cially condoned and encouraged. 

Morgan, John H. (editor). German Atrocities: An Official Investiga- 
tion. (N. Y., Dutton, 1916. $1.00.) 
First hand evidence collected by the editor. 

Rogers, Lindsay. America's Case against Germany. (N. Y., Dutton, 
191T. $1.50.) 

^A narrative of the submarine outrages with a demonstration of 
the illegality of Germany's contentions by a professor in the 
University of Virginia. 

Toynbee, Arnold J. The German Terror in Belgium: An Historical 
Record. (X. Y., Doran, 1917.) 

An ordered account of the terrible crimes committed by the 
German armies in Belgium. 

Toynbee, Arnold J. The German Terror in France. (N. Y., Doran, 
1917.) 

A continuation of the iireceding account Ijut with reference to 
France. 

Toynbee, Arnold J. Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Xation. 
(X. Y., Dutton. 191(1. $.25.) 

The story of the massacres in Armenia and German responsibil- 
ity therefor. 

The German Menace. 

Anonymous. / Accuse. (X. Y., Doran, 1915. $1.50.) 

An arraignment of Germany by a German of the German War 
party. 



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Archer, William. Gtniis of Gcniuin Thought. (X. Y., Doubleday, Page, 
1917. $l.;3r..) 

A collection of utterances showing the menace of Germany to 
the world. 

Bcrnhardi, Frederich von. Germany and the Nc.vt War. (N. Y., Long- 
mans, 1912. $.75.) 

An illuminating self-revelation of a German bureaucratic military 
mind. 

Billow, Bcrnhard Heinrich Martin Karl, fiirst von. Imperial Germany. 
(N. Y., Dodd, Mead, 1917. $2.00.) 

Germany's own defense of her foreign policy for the last forty 
years written by a former Imperial Chancellor. 

Cheradame, Andre. The Pan-German Plot Unmasked. (N. Y., Scrib- 
ner, 1917. $1.25.) 

Germany's dreams of world empire set forth with startling clear- 
ness by the author of the much discussed Atlantic Monthly ar- 
ticles on the same theme. 

Naumann, Frederick. MittelEuropa. (N. Y., Knopf, 1917. $:!.) 
A frank statement of German political aspirations. 

Oliver, Frederick Scott. Ordeal by Battle. (N. Y.. Macmillan. 1915. 
$1.50.) 

One of the best and most complete presentations of the case 
against Germany. 

Out of Their Own Mouths. (N. Y., Appleton, 1917. $1.00.) 

A collection of the utterances of German statesmen, scholars, and 
publicists, illustrating the spirit of German leaders, their stand- 
ards of international conduct, and their aims in the war. 

Princeton Professors. The World Peril. (Princeton, Princeton Uni- 
versity Press, 1917. $1.00.) 

Reventlow, Ernst zu. graf. The J'ampire of the Continent. (X. Y., 
Jackson Press, 1917.) 

From the hand of one of the most prominent pan-Germanists, 
the editor of the Berliner Tageblatt. England is iiictured a.^ the 
"vampire" of civilization. 

\N'aldstein, Sir Charles. What Germany Is Fighting for. (X. Y., 
Longmans, 1917. $.60.) 
A critical examination of the war aims of the belligerents. 

The Entrance of the United States. 

Beck. James U. The War and Humanity. (X. Y., Putnam, 1917. 

$1.50.) 

America's interest in the war. 
Rogers, Lindsay. America's Case against Germany. (X. Y., Button, 

1917. $1.50.) 

A full, untechnical explanation of the legal grounds on which the 



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United States declared war with some consideration as well of 
America's moral case against Germanj-. 
Wilson, Woodrow. Why VVc Arc at War. (X. Y., ?Tarpcr, 1917. 
$1.50.) 
The President's views on the war. 

The Terms of Peace. 

"Cosmos." The Basis of Durable Peace. (N. Y.. Scribncr. 1917. $.40.) 
A series of articles on the terms of peace contributed to the New 
York Times, "from a source," the editors state, "the competency 
and authority of which would be recognized in both hemispheres." 

Headlam, James W. The Issue. (Boston, Houghton, 1917. $1.00.) 
A clear statement of the menacing character of Germany's war- 
aims, in case of a "German Peace." 

Headlam, James W. The Peace Terms of the .tllies. ( X. Y., Doran, 
1917. $.05.) 
A discussion of the December ( 191()) peace overtures. 

Military History. 

Bclloc, Hilaire. The lilenieiits of the Great War. (X. Y., Hearst's 
International Library Co., 1915. Vol. I, The First Phase. Vol. 
2, The vSecond Phase; The Battle of the Marnc. $1.50 each.) 
By a brilliant writer who has served in the French army. 

Buchan, Jolin. Nelson's History of the War. (N. Y., Nelson, 1914- 
1917. $.50.) 

A readable history of which seventeen volumes have thus far 
appeared. 

Chevrillon, Andre. En^iland and the War. (N. Y., Doubleday Page, 
1917. $1.25.) 

Simonds, Frank H. The Great War: The First Phase {from the As- 
sassi)iation of the Archduke to the Fall of Antivcrp). (X. \ .. Kcn- 
ncrley, 1914. $1.50.) 

Simonds, Frank H. They Shall Xot Pass. (X. Y., Dodd. 191C.. $1. :>().) 

Simonds, Frank H. Three Years of the Great War. (X". Y., N. Y. 
Tribune, 1917. $.2.").) 

Three interesting studies liy the most widely read American mil- 
itary critic. 

Personal Experiences and Fiction. 

Cholmondcly, Alice. Christine. (X. Y., Macmillan, 1917. $1..")0.) 
Gerard, James W. My Four Years in Germany. (N. Y., Doran, 1917. 

$2.00.) 
Hall, James Xornian. Kitchener's Mob. (Boston, Houghton Miffln, 

1916.) 

A series of articles which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly 



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Hankey, Donald. A Student in Arms. (N. Y., Button, 1917. $1.S0.) 

Speculative rather than descriptive. 
Hunt, Edward Eyre. War Bread: A Personal Narrative of the War and 

Relief in Belgium. (N. Y., Holt, 1916.) 
Kreisler, Fritz. Four Weeks in the Trenches. (Boston, Houghton, 

Mifflin, 1915.) 
LaMotte, Ellen N. The Backivash of War. (N. Y., Putnam, 1916.) 

A series of short stories of scenes and incidents "in a French 

military field hospital." 
McConnell, J. R. Flying for France. (N. Y., Doubleday, Page, 1916. 

$1.00.) 

The experiences of a Virginia alumnus who gave his life for 

France. 
Morlae, Edward. A Soldier of the Legion. (Boston, Houghton 

Mifflin, 1916.) 
Palmer, Frederick. My Year of the Great War. (N. Y., Dodd, 1915.) 

Palmer was the only offlcial representative of the American press 

with the British army in France. 
Palmer, Frederick. My Second Year of the War. (N. Y., Dodd, 1917.) 

The book also shows, in a purely military way, what England 

has accomplished. 
Wells, Herbert G. Mr. BritUng Sees It Through. (N. Y., Macmil- 

lan, 1916. $1.60.) 

Perhaps the most discussed novel of the war. 
Wood, Eric Fisher. The Note Book of an Attache. (N. Y., Century, 

1915.) 
Wood, Eric Fisher. Tlie Note Book of an Intelligence Officer. (N. 

Y., Century, 1917.) 

A League of Nations. 

Brailsford, Henry Noel. A League of Nations. (N. Y., Macmillan, 
1917. $1.75.) 

The most suggestive book on this subject although it deals mildly 
with Germany's crimes. 

Buxton, Charles R. (editor). Tozi'ard a Lasting Settlement. (N. Y., 
Macmillan, 1916. $1.25.) 

Dickinson, G. Lowes. The Choice before U. S. (N. Y., Dodd, 
Mead, 1917. $2.00.) 
A collection of essays on various phases of the settlement. 

Goldsmith, Robert. A League to Enforce Peace. With a special in- 
troduction by President A. Lawrence Lowell. (N. Y., Macmillan, 
1917. $.50.) 

An authoritative statement of the proposals put forth by the 
League; a clear and sympathetic outline of the plans of the 
League, showing how the intelligence of the world may be so 
directed and organized as to render future wars less likely. 



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Hobson, John Atkinson. Toivards International Government. (N. Y., 
Macmillan, 1915. $1.25.) 

States and discusses the chief proposals for securing a durable 
peace on a basis of better international relations after this war 
has been brought to an end and terms of settlement have been 
arranged. 

La Fontaine, Henri. The Great Solution, Magnissima Charta. (Bos- 
ton, World Peace Foundation, 1916.) 

The League Bulletin, issued weekly by the League to Enforce Peace. 
(N. Y., League to Enforce Peace, 1917 — 4 p. per number.) 
"A medium for the news and propaganda of the League." The 
first printed number is dated June 8, 1917, and is No. 38 of a se- 
ries which was previously issued only to officers and branches 
of the organization. 

Woolf, Leonard S. (editor). International Government. Two re- 
ports, prepared for the Fabian Research Department with an in- 
troduction by George Bernard Shaw together with a project by 
a Fabian Committee for a supernational authority that will pre- 
vent war. (N. Y., Brentano's. 1916. $3.00.) 

An excellent study of the problem of international organization 
with a concrete scheme to preserve peace in the future. 

Books Recommended by the National Security League. 

The purchase of all the books indicated above would prob- 
ably entail too great an expense for most communities, so at- 
tention may be drawn to the following select list of authori- 
ties suitable for private collections and small public libraries 
recommended by the Committee on Patriotism through Edu- 
cation of the National Security League. Taking the price into 
consideration, it is probably the best suggestion for purchases 
that will cover all phases of the struggle and not be too expen- 
sive. The comments on the titles, most of which have appeared 
in the lists above, are taken from the "Handbook of the War 
for Public Speakers" issued by the National Security League 
(31 Pine Street, New York City), and itself a very valuable 
compendium of information on the war (25 cents). 

A— A Ten Dollar List. 

American Association for International Conciliation. International 
Conciliation. Nos. 83-114 passim. (N. Y., Am. Assoc, for Int. 
Con.) Substation 84, free on application. 

Very convenient set of the documents issued by the various coun- 
tries at the outbreak of the war. 



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Beck, James M. TJic War and Humanity. (3d ed., N. Y., Putnam, 
1917. $1.50.) 
On America's concern in the war. 

Bernhardi, Frederich von. Germany and the Next War. (N. Y., 
authorized Am. translation, Longmans, 1912. $.75.) 
By the chief exponent of the philosophy of Prussian militarism, 
a general who has had a command in the European war. 

Cheradame, Andre. The Pan-German Plot Unmasked. (N. Y., Scrib- 
ner, 1917. $1.25.) 
On Germany's war aims and the menace of a German peace. 

Hart, Albert Bushnell, (editor). America at War. For speakers, 
writers, and readers. (N. Y., Appleton's, 1918. $1.50.) 
Companion volume to the Handbook: analysis of the war; abun- 
dant classified references; full and comprehensive extracts from 
speeches, documents, articles, and books. 

Meyer, H. H. B. (compiler). United States in War; Organization and 
Literature. (Wash. Gov't. Printing Office, 1917.) Free on ap- 
plication to Library of Congress. 

A very useful pamphlet giving condensed information concerning 
the organization and activities of the various bodies, govern- 
mental and other, which the war has called into existence, with 
other material on the war. 

Morgan, John H. German Atrocities: An Official Investigation. (N. 
Y., Button, 1916. $1.00.) 

By the professor of constitutional law in the University of Lon- 
don. Based upon Belgian, French, British, and especially Ger- 
man, official documents. 

National Security League. Patriotism Through Education Series. (N. 
Y., Na.tional Security League, 31 Pine Street, 1917 — free to mem- 
bers of the League on application.) 

Toynbee, Arnold Joseph. Armenian Atrocities; the Murder of a Na- 
tion. (N. Y., Button. $.25.) 

Brief but authoritative account of the massacres in Armenia, and 
of the relation of German officials thereto. 

U. S. Committee on Pubic Information. How the War Came to 
America. (Washington, June 15, 1917; free on application.) ''Red, 
white, and blue" pamphlet. 

Vischer, Ch. de. Belgium's Case: A Juridical Enquiry. (N. Y., George 
H. Boran Company, 1916. $1.25.) 

A careful review of the German occupancy and oppression of 
Belgium and of the moral and legal aspects of Germany's viola- 
tion of Belgian neutrality. 

Wilson, Woodrow. Why We Are at War. (X. Y., Harper, 1917. 
$.50.) 
A convenient collection of the President's speeches and messages. 



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Wood, Leonard. Our Military History; Its Facts and Fallacies. (Chi- 
cago, Reilly & Britten, 1916. $1.00.) 
Brief account of the difficulties and sacrifices of volunteer armies. 

B — A Tzventy-five Dollar List. 

The foregoing ten-dollar list of books, together with the fol- 
lowing : 

Archer, William. Gems of German Thought. (N. Y., Doubleday, 
Page, 1917. $1.25.) 

Beck, James M. The Evidence in the Case. (N. Y., Putnam, 1914. 
$1.00.) 

Searching analysis of the responsibility for the European war, 
by an eminent lawyer, formerly assistant attorney-general of the 
United States. 

Bcith, John Hay. (Ian Hay, pseud.). Getting Together. (Garden 
City, Doubleday, Page, 1917. $.50.) 

Cobb, frvin S. "Speaking of Prussians." (N. Y., Doran, 1917. $.50.) 

Dawson, Wni. H. IVhat is the Matter zvith Germany? (London, Long- 
mans, 1915. $1.00.) 
By a writer who has long interested himself in German affairs. 

Hart, Albert Bushnell. The War in Europe, Its Causes and Results. 
(N. Y., Appleton, 1914. $1.00.) 
A brief account of the war and the interest of the United States. 

Headlam, James W. The Issue. (Boston, Houghton, 1917. $1.00.) 
Germany's war aims in case of a "German peace." 

Holmes, Edmond. The Nemesis of Docility. (N. Y., Dutton, 1916. 
$1.75.) 
An acute study of the psychology of the German character. 

O'Brien, Charles. Food Preparedness for the United States. (Bos- 
ton, Little, Brown, 1917. $.60.) 

Rinehart, Mary Roberts. The Altar of Freedom. (Boston, Hough- 
ton, Mifflin, 1917. $.50.) 
An appeal to American mothers, by one of them. 

Rogers, Lindsay. America's Case against Germany. (N'. Y., Dutton, 
1917. $1.50.) 

An untechnical presentation of the legal aspect of America's case, 
and a review of the diplomatic correspondence, with citations of 
the principal passages. 

Stowell, Ellery C. The Diplomacy of the War of 1914. The Beginnings 
of the War. (Boston, Houghton, Mififlin, 1915. $5.00.) 
Careful review and analysis by an expert in international affairs. 



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